On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 11:35:48AM +0200, Ralf Ertzinger wrote: > Hi. > > On Thu, 25 Sep 2008 14:04:35 +0200, Matej Cepl wrote > > > What was meant (I guess) is that if DNS is broken and there is no > > localhost entry in /etc/hosts, user however naive will have > > bigger problems than slow sendmail on start. > > Is there any particular reason why the resolver does not know > about 127.0.0.1<->localhost by default? It should of course follow > the methods outlined in nsswitch.conf to get more specific results, > but localhost is pretty crucial for a working UNIX which has networking > cababilities. It isn't localhost that is a problem. It is the system hostname to IP mapping that is a problem. e.g. for a host called "foobar": 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost foobar.domain.com foobar -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
